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From: MUSICMAN100 on 30 May 2010 14:52

Hi,

I have had chance to use this phone over the last few weeks in the UK.
I have 2 of them but living in Austria I have not been able to use that
much. although I have discovered that windows messenger works fine here
and free of charge!! Skype does not!!. I have not tried messenger on
non 3 networks but on Austrian 3 it works fine.

I was expecting all sorts of trouble after reading about the problems
on the internet but i did not encounter any of them.

I used the telephone in London and had no problems with the internet or
using skype. I had a signal all the way from stansted until liverpool
street while the person I was with with his i-phone kept losing his
signal.

I had set up a system (using part of the guide Graham used with his S2
so thank-you for that) of when I rang skype on my home computer in
Austria it rang the normal phone and I also set up a normal number
which then rang my mobile ( we have free land line calls with viop).
This all work well and I spent about 2 hours of phone calls between
the Uk and austria which did not cost me anything!!!!.

I also used the phone as a modem for my netbook and had no problem.

Last week I travelled from Manchester to S****horpe and up to the north
near Hexham. No problem with reception apart from the Moors where nobody
had a signal and in Allendale Town where my sister could get no coverage
with O2 and people who live can't find a mobile to work there. Three
worked well although the signal was better upstairs then down but it
still worked.

I measured my speed upstairs in Allendale when using the S2 as a modem
for my netbook and I got speeds of 2.5 Mb download and 0.5 MB upload.
Not bad.
My son had the other S2 and we were taking to each all the time using
skype.

I also used the phone to check my gmail account and again no problem
and goole map worked well aswell.

So all in all for �25 it is certainly the best phone I have used. The
only problem I found was the battery life was quite short- it easily
lasts a day but not much more. Although I was using the internet
,checking gmail, using skype alot so I was expecting a shorten battery
life. For a phone that cheap I wasn't expecting great battery life
especially with all that I was doing with it.

I have had the phone about 3 months and I have not seen the problem
with it turning itself off on either of the phones yet!!

Just one point - I kept getting spam skype chat about 1 a day does
anyone know how to stop that? Is there an option to click when I log
in to my skype account on the computer? I had signed up to
ring2skype-could that be the problem?

So I hope that helps someone looking at the S2 phone I have found it
works well gets a strong signal , has a great screen and does
everything it says. Maybe when it first came out there was a few
software problems with it- but it looks like Three has sorted out
them out. For the price I don't think it can be beaten and the �5 every
3 months it is excellent value.




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From: Steve Terry on 30 May 2010 20:19
"MUSICMAN100" <MUSICMAN100.64885ac(a)mobilebanter.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Just one point - I kept getting spam skype chat about 1 a day does
> anyone know how to stop that? Is there an option to click when I log
> in to my skype account on the computer? I had signed up to
> ring2skype-could that be the problem?
>
>
Check your full Skype settings on a PC, you've probably left
Skype chat open to all

Steve Terry
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From: Steve Terry on 30 May 2010 22:24
"MUSICMAN100" <MUSICMAN100.64885ac(a)mobilebanter.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MUSICMAN100.64885ac(a)mobilebanter.co.uk...
> So all in all for �25 it is certainly the best phone I have used. The
> only problem I found was the battery life was quite short- it easily
> lasts a day but not much more. Although I was using the internet
> ,checking gmail, using skype alot so I was expecting a shorten battery
> life. For a phone that cheap I wasn't expecting great battery life
> especially with all that I was doing with it.
>
>
The slide version INQ1 is cheap at the moment �29.99
http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/dealsummary.aspx?offercode=DSL0PP258

With at present �12 cashback on PAYG at Three online shop, using
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So that's only 18quid after cashback

please sign up using my sig

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From: Nigel on 31 May 2010 03:28
Hi,

Anyone got experience of the INQ1?

Reading about it on the interent there seemed to be quite a lot of problems
with it ( a lot more then the S2!!!)

thanks

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From: MUSICMAN100 on 31 May 2010 05:27

'Steve Terry[_2_ Wrote:
> ;213278']"MUSICMAN100" MUSICMAN100.64885ac(a)mobilebanter.co.uk wrote in
> message
> news:MUSICMAN100.64885ac(a)mobilebanter.co.uk...-
>
> Just one point - I kept getting spam skype chat about 1 a day does
> anyone know how to stop that? Is there an option to click when I log
> in to my skype account on the computer? I had signed up to
> ring2skype-could that be the problem?
>
> -
> Check your full Skype settings on a PC, you've probably left
> Skype chat open to all
>
> Steve Terry
> --
> Welcome Sign-up Bonus of �1 when you signup free at:
> http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/G4WWK

Hi ,

I have checked the settings on both my account and my sons and they are
both ticked to allow only people on my contact list to contact us. So I
don't klnow what else to do




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